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"At a 1988 Mademoiselle magazine shoot, Bobbi Brown, now 56, met a chemist and asked him to help her create &amp;quot;a color that looked like lips.&amp;quot; The original pinky-brown plus nine other natural shades&amp;#8212;launched in 1991 at Bergdorf Goodman&amp;#8212;formed the backbone of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, a global brand Estee Lauder bought for an undisclosed sum in 1995.\nPinterestFacebookBrown still runs the company and calls herself a type-A-minus personality. &amp;quot;I can let things go, I have a sense of humor, and I often make decisions based on my gut that most type A&amp;#39;s would disagree with,&amp;quot; she tells Glamour.com.\nBut contrary to what you might think, she wasn&amp;#39;t always the makeup master that she is today. Her junior-high makeup efforts were as embarrassing as yours. &amp;quot;Although it may be hard to believe, I did love blue eyeshadow and liner.&amp;quot; She also made the rookie mistake of letting a friend tweeze her eyebrows. &amp;quot;Over-tweezed. It was awful.&amp;quot;\nA couple of her prouder moments: She did the makeup for the Rolling Stones for their Dirty Work album cover in 1986. &amp;quot;I was just starting out. It was pretty surreal.&amp;quot; More recently, doing Michelle Obama&amp;#39;s makeup gave her a (rare) case of nerves. &amp;quot;It was the first time I was doing it, and I only had 10 minutes!&amp;quot;\nHer company offers an in-office manicurist&amp;#8212;and, yes, the lucky employees can get one during a conference call or a meeting. &amp;quot;Our brand philosophy is that you need to take care of yourself from the inside out. We have a lot of busy women&amp;#8212;some who are mothers&amp;#8212;working for the brand who may not have time to do little things for themselves,&amp;quot; she says. She and her husband funded the gym at Emerson College, her alma mater. The running joke, she admits, is that &amp;quot;I chose the gym because I played basketball there.&amp;quot; (She&amp;#39;s five feet tall.) Seriously, though: &amp;quot;I view exercise as a way to empower people.&amp;quot;\nPinterestFacebookHanging around models used to give her a complex. &amp;quot;I was actually pretty cute back then, and I only say that because I wish I hadn&amp;#39;t been so hard on myself about my height, hair color, weight, etc. I wish I had embraced who I was in my twenties knowing now that I would finally be comfortable in my own skin.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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